Managing Full-Text Search for a Server Instance

System management includes tasks such as managing the FDHOST Launcher service (MSSQLFDLauncher), restarting filter daemon host process if you change the service account credentials, configuring server-wide full-text properties, and backing up full-text indexes. At the server level, for example, you can specify a default full-text language that differs from the default language of the server instance as a whole.

Discusses upgrading full-text catalogs when to SQL Server 2008 during setup or when database files and full-text catalogs from a previous version of SQL Server are attached, restored, or copied using the Copy Database Wizard.

Discusses finding the full-text indexes of a full-text catalog, finding the filegroup or file that contains a full-text index, backing up the full-text indexes of a full-text catalog, and restoring a full-text index.